he talks about sacred ground, thats why i said about self cast 
The issue is this makes it take longer to cast the spell, and a lot of the time I get staggered before I can press it. whereas if it casted where I looked it would be instantaneous.
I mean you could also just turn on targeted healing - group mode so you don’t throw a spell at a random
that only works when in a group, does not work when solo
Fair point, I would actually love some kind of quick cast on all spells with ground targeting, we can still use the crosshair to aim anyway.
Yeah, not just for ground ones, there should be a way that heals like Divine Embrace heal the person you are looking at. they need to differentiate between aoe and single target spells in the settings because you want different things for both. Single target you need to lock on or look at someone, whilst AOE is better non locked.
I come to forum to make this post, and i will plaus some more…
On saturday i got level 20 in healing staff, that is my only leveled weapon, so lets talk about heals.
1st. Self Healing: When you press CTRL + Q, R or F, you shold cast heal on yourself, but alot of times it bugged, some times you shold hold the CTRL until the cast of skill done, or else the heal come to random people, other times, same holding CTRL for all cast the skill go random on party and 90% of times i died. What help alot is have a shortcut for each member of party (eg. F1 for first member, F2 for second…)
2nd. Target: Mates i know the target system for this game is very diferent of others MMOs, but for heal thats realy a pain, when you are in a party for dungeon or for war or some else, target the people is very complicated, when you use a heal you need choose who to heal with mouse scroll, and this time you can spent some precious secounds, without mentioning some times your mouse get that little self scroll and select wrong player…
3th. Out of Range: This piss me out all the time, we need to know when we are out of range, today when i pre cast a skill i see the mark on who will receive the heal, so i press the heal and Voilà i heal my self… we need a red marker on out of range.
there are minor changes that helpfull too, like when we are not in a party our AoE skills heals near players, but this is for other topics, the most priority is this 3 points
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Everyday a random comes and says he wants the game to be created as the games he used to play because he doesnt want to change his gameplay (automatic behaviour) and because everything should be easier, way easier than it is…
But why are you doing this?
This annoys me aswell. It also doesnt show on the party frames. Like you said, there are many times when I think I am in range of someone, but it casts the heal on myself instead.
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Mate, the system currently is just bad. I’m not saying it needs to be the same as other games, I’m saying it needs actually function properly. I mention other MMO’s to show how every other one figured it out.
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This is missing the topic, which is healing is absurdly clunky.
There is no max range indicator, there is no fixed healing UI, which is default for almost any PVP oriented game (and also for PVE games).
And healing yourself is even more difficult.
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Bump. I play healer in every MMO/Game I play, and this is by far the worst system I’ve ever experienced. PLEASE let us reposition the party frames. Why are we forced to look to the top left hand corner of our screen to see them. The small UI when you scroll isn’t the best and it’s unreliable to watch the health bar above peoples heads.
Few things about the healing system.
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Targeting is awful. The scroll lock for frames overshoots so often. It makes it slightly easier to cast single target heals, but worse for AoE.
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The delay on a heal actually casting can feel terrible. It’s not fluid.
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No range indicator which leads to heals being cast on yourself instead of the target you’re locked onto if you’re out of range. Can be detrimental for longer cooldown heals.
It might be worth them just scrapping any target-specific healing and redesigning them to all be area based or frontal/cone heals that requires a mixture of both A. Proximity to the target for the cone and frontal heals. or B. Manual targeting but with larger circles.
Either way something needs to change with the system. I love healing but it’s just awful to deal with a system that functions like this.
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Bump, this needs to be fixed
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I think it all comes down to learning how to play the healer in a new game. I have been a healer in all the games I have played, where it was possible and in every game there was a learning curve.
I do not recognize your problem about healing random players, my heals always goes where I want it.
You might want to look in the game setting, under gameplay and change some setting there.
It’s not about learning at all. I can heal things comfortably. But for me personally it doesn’t change the fact that the system is clunky and awkward to use.
Have changed the settings around plenty to know what works best for me - but yeah, still awful system IMO.
I’m glad you don’t find it as bad as some of us do though haha
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If you have never had a heal go where you didn’t want it to go, then you have not been healing for long or you’re just a liar. Any dedicated healer knows this pain and you expose yourself as a pretender by trying to claim otherwise. This is the most clunky healing system I have ever seen in any game ever, and I played Age of Conan. It is just bad and needs dire improvement if this game is to prosper.
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So, because I know how to heal I haven’t played long enough or is a liar? I have played alpha, cb, ob and preview. I too had problems during cb, in the beginning (not mention alpha because heal almost didn’t exist at that time. People got the staff because of the blink) Maybe consider that I actually KNOW what I am doing!?
I think that no one won’t want to be a healer if the game won’t change for them…
Please take a good look at your key bindings, especially those for healing and then kindly learn how to heal yourself. What you are describing points to someone unable to read simple instructions and not to a terrible healing system.
Yes, it is not as easy as WoW - thats a good thing
I agree, the healing mechanic with target, non-target, changing target with scrolls and targeting self with ctrl etc is so annoing. I really hope they will change it as it should be. Any other weapon is made for a game without target, but healer is mixed…
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